KARL STORZ is First to Market with Alexa in the Operating Room

KARL STORZ, a leader in operating room technology, has announced a first-to-market move to bring Amazon Alexa to the operating room. Already well established in healthcare as a HIPAA-compliant voice assistant, Alexa Smart Properties will now be available in KARL STORZ integrated operating rooms to help perform a variety of tasks to enhance and streamline surgical workflow.

With the increasing administrative burden on clinical teams to operate equipment and document procedures, the introduction of a voice assistant is an important step toward allowing them to refocus on patient care.

Without having to touch any equipment, the surgical team will now be able to access case setup information, adjust surgical visualization, contact other staff members, and more, from anywhere in the operating room. This will enable unprecedented control for surgeons and team members who are scrubbed in, without sacrificing sterility.

“This partnership with Amazon brings us one step closer to a touchless operating room, where the technology works for the clinical team—not the other way around,” said Christy Gaudet, VP of Surgical Sales & Marketing at KARL STORZ United States.

The technology will be available as an extension of the CollaboratOR, an interactive ecosystem for the KARL STORZ integrated operating room.

The KARL STORZ Alexa-enabled operating room is available for U.S. deployment immediately.